BMT Survivorship Team
Meet the the BMT Survivorship Program's Core Team and Consulting Providers.
BMT Survivorship Core Team
Areej El-Jawahri, MD
Director, BMT Survivorship Program
Areej El-Jawahri MD is an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Survivorship Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Associate Director of Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center Survivorship Program. Dr. El-Jawahri’s clinical and research interests focus on improving the quality of life and care for patients with hematologic malignancies and their families, and addressing their palliative, supportive care and survivorship needs.
Julie Vanderklish, NP
Associate Director, BMT Survivorship Program
Julie Vanderdklish is a Nurse Practitioner with the Department of Bone Marrow Transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has focused in bone marrow transplant as a nurse practitioner since 1999 and is the Associate Director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Survivorship Program. Julie’s clinical interests focus on the prevention and management of graft versus host disease, symptom management and improving the quality of life in bone marrow transplant survivors. Her research interests include sexual health and survivorship issues in the bone marrow transplant population.
Yi-Bin Chen, MD
Director, BMT Program
Yi-Bin Chen, MD serves as Director for the BMT program at MGH, and divides his time between patient care and clinical research with a focus on patients undergoing bone marrow/stem cell transplantation. He directs an active portfolio of clinical trials aimed to improve outcomes for patients undergoing stem cell transplantation. His interests mainly revolve around clinical care of patients undergoing autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplant. He collaborates extensively with local and national colleagues as well as industry in addition to developing his own original clinical trials.
Jennifer D'Alotto, MSW, LICSW
Jen D’Alotto is a Clinical Social Worker in the BMT/Leukemia and Bone Marrow Transplant Survivorship programs at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Her practice focuses on assessing/addressing the strengths and challenges families face in coping with their diagnosis and treatment before, during, and after transplant. Her clinical interests include patient and caregiver quality of life, post-traumatic growth, mindfulness practices as stress management strategies, and developmentally-specific supports to children in adjusting to a parent’s treatment. Jen provides assessment, support, and facilitation of access to resources in clinic and in the community.
Colleen Danielson, NP
Dr. Jacobo is the Chief Psychologist of the Medical Psychiatric Inpatient and the Director of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) program at Massachusetts General Hospital and is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. At MGH, she leads skills training groups, supervises, & teaches trainees about DBT. She is a senior member of the DBT consultation team at MGH, which offers as-needed consultation to other members of the MGH Psychiatry Department on challenging cases. In addition, she supervises and participates in the clinical application of mindfulness in medical populations. Dr. Jacobo’s research focuses on clinical applications of the DBT skills training model and she has been an author on several published papers in this area. A graduate of The University of Massachusetts at Amherst in clinical psychology, Dr. Jacobo has a long –standing interest in psychotherapy integration.
Meredith Saylor, NP
Meredith Saylor Meredith Saylor has been a nurse practitioner on the bone marrow transplant team at Mass General since 2012. She received her undergraduate degree from George Washington University and graduate degree from the Virginia Commonwealth University. Her clinical interests include patients who have undergone allogeneic and autologous stem cell transplants, complications from transplantation including acute and chronic graft vs host disease and survivorship care post transplant.
Lara Traeger Lara Traeger, PhD is a clinical psychologist and researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. In her clinical work and research, Dr. Traeger focuses on helping patients affected by cancer to enhance health behaviors and quality of life. She also studies strategies for enhancing resilience among cancer care clinicians.
Consulting Providers
Katharine E. Black, MD
Pulmonary
Reza Dana, MD, MPH
Ophthalmology
Shadmehr Demehri, MD, PhD
Dermatology
Jorg Dietrich, MD, PhD
Neurology
Frances Hayes, MD
Reproductive-Endocrine
Alyssa R. Letourneau, MD
Infectious disease
Caroline M. Mitchell, MD
Vaginal issues
Tomas G. Neilan, MD
Cardiology
Michael Parsons, PhD
Neuro Cognitive Testing
Jennifer A. Shin, MD
Palliative Care
Nathaniel Simon Treister, DMD, DMSc
Oral GVHD
Marc N. Wein, MD, PhD
Endocrine